Judge To Hear Tapes In Murder Trial

May 25, 1989

WILL COUNTY — The murder-for-hire trial of a Joliet prison worker was recessed Wednesday so that the judge hearing the case could listen to more than seven hours of clandestine tape recordings of the alleged murder plot.

Will County Circuit Judge Raymond L. Bolden, who is hearing the case without a jury, will listen to the tapes before admitting them into evidence as the prosecution winds up its case against David DeMarco.

DeMarco, 36, is accused of hiring an imprisoned El Rukn gang member to arrange the murder of his former wife. He was arrested after the gang member went to authorities at the Joliet Correctional Center, where DeMarco worked as a paramedic.